Roger Highfield
Museum exec, prof @Dunn_School & @UCLChemistry, ex Ed @newscientist & @Telegraph. Neutron bouncer. Books rogerhighfield.com/books
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Size and sleep: New research reveals why little things sleep longer
Using data from humans and other mammals, a team of scientists including researchers from the Santa Fe Institute has developed one of the first quantitative models that explains why sleep times across species and during development decrease as...
Roger Highfield
Why does the mouse sleep five times longer than the elephant?
eurekalert.org/e/J80y More from Geoffrey West blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/universal-laws…
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Matt Hancock: Britain is at coronavirus tipping point
Health secretary says talks are continuing about possible new restrictions in London
Roger Highfield
Matt Hancock: Britain at #COVID19 tipping point theguardian.com/world/2020/sep… (background on second wave: sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/coronavir…)
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COVID-19 data scandal prompts tweaks to elite journal’s review process
After publishing study based on unverified patient data from Surgisphere, a little-known company, The Lancet promises tighter standards
Brain-scanning backpack brings neuroscience into the real world
Wearable device allows brain readings and stimulation on the go
Roger Highfield
Neuroscience on the go. Brain-scanning backpack brings neuroscience into the real world
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Dorothy Vaughan: NASA’s overlooked star
When we think of NASA Scientists today, we visualise a diverse and inclusive workforce, but this was not always the case. The unsung heroes of early NASA were often those who not only broke gender, but racial stereotypes too.
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
In The Human Cosmos Jo Marchant takes us on a tour through the history of humanity's relationship with the heavens, and explores the crucial role it has played in making us who we are today. Includes exclusive admission to the online event: Jo...
Scientists must not be allowed to decide our Covid response
Experts set out the menu, but only politicians have the democratic legitimacy to make decisions
Practical science at home in a pandemic world
There are plenty of online resources to ensure that learning can continue for students who cannot access universities during a pandemic, but what options are there for practical aspects of science courses? Daren J. Caruana, Christoph G. Salzmann and...
Demand for Covid checks 'is up to FOUR TIMES the system's capacity'
The Government's coronavirus testing tsar sparked outrage today after she claimed nobody was 'expecting' to see the 'really sizeable increase in demand' for checks in recent weeks.
Scientists uncover the structural mechanism of coronavirus receptor binding
The spike protein on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can adopt at least ten distinct structural states, when in contact with the human virus receptor ACE2.
How COVID-19 can damage the brain
Some people who become ill with the coronavirus develop neurological symptoms. Scientists are struggling to understand why.
Roger Highfield
How #COVID19 can damage the brain nature.com/articles/d4158… Important clues come from organoid research - more here from @HansClevers sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/coronavir…
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✍️Science Writing News Roundup #6
The Open Notebook email mini-courses: what would you like to learn? + Seminars for underrepresented authors + New book: Communicating Science: A Global Perspective + Science is getting harder to read.
Manchester Science Festival | Science and Industry Museum
Manchester Science Festival is back for 2020, and this year it will centre on the most urgent issue of our time—climate.
"Science has never been more relevant." Sally MacDonald, director of the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester
"Science has never been more relevant." Sally MacDonald, Director of the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester writes about COVID-19 and reopening to the public.
BBC One - Extinction: The Facts
Sir David Attenborough investigates the loss of biodiversity happening around us.
Uncovering temporal changes in Europe’s population density patterns using a data fusion approach
Official data on the distribution of human population often ignores the changing spatio-temporal densities resulting from mobility. Here, authors apply an approach combining official statistics and geospatial data to assess intraday and monthly...
Frank Barnaby obituary
Radiation physicist at Aldermaston who went on to warn of the dangers posed by the civil and military uses of nuclear energy
Dust may have controlled ancient human civilization
When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the Levant served as a critical gateway between northern Africa and Eurasia. A...
Nature: Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in new Global Biodiversity Outlook report
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity's new GBO5 report provides:
A final report card on the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets (2010-2020) and lessons learned as nations negotiate a global framework and targets for managing nature this decade, to...
Roger Highfield
Humanity at a crossroads, UN warns in Global Biodiversity Outlook report eurekalert.org/e/J7vw Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report outlines right major transitions needed to slow, then halt nature's accelerating decline
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Windwurf in den Dolomiten im Jahr 2018.
Windwurf in den Dolomiten im Jahr 2018.
Roger Highfield
Satellite images display changes in the condition of European forests bit.ly/3hseQuU - loss of canopy in 17 percent of the European forests in 30 years
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